Dashcam Detective Work Leads to Recovery of Space Rocks From Slovenia Fireball
On February 28, 2020, at 10:30 CET, hundreds of people across Slovenia, Croatia, Italy, Austria, and Hungary observed a bright ball of light hurtling across…
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NASA Launches Landsat 9 Today: Here’s How To Watch Live + 9 Things To Know
Animation of the Landsat 9 spacecraft in orbit around Earth, passing over the Western US and Baja California. The satellite will travel at 7.5 km/second,…
More Than Meets the Eye: Hubble Misses Vast Amounts of Energy
Meet NGC 5728, a spiral galaxy around 130 million light-years from Earth. This image was captured using Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3), which is…
Jingle, Pluck, and Hum: Mesmerizing Sounds From Space
Since 2020, a “sonification” project has transformed astronomical data from some of the world’s most powerful telescopes into sound. Three new objects — a star-forming…
Interplay Between Magnetic Force and Gravity in Massive Star Formation
The magnetic field is part of one of the four fundamental forces in nature. It plays a vital role in everyday life, from producing electricity…
Lucy Is Going to Space – To Explore Time Capsules From the Birth of Our Solar System
Time capsules from the birth of our Solar System more than 4 billion years ago, the swarms of Trojan asteroids associated with Jupiter are thought…
NASA Chief Scientist to Retire
NASA’s Chief Scientist Jim Green has announced that he will retire in early 2022 after more than 40 years of service at NASA. “I feel…
Untangling the Formation of Planetary Systems With Heavy Hydrogen
An international research team using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) revealed the distribution of heavy hydrogen, or deuterium, in planet formation sites with the…
Space Biology, Dragon Packing and Station Traffic Fill ISS Crew Schedule
Rodent research, microbe sampling, and Dragon packing filled the Expedition 65 crew’s day at the end of the week aboard the International Space Station. Three…
NASA Releases Interactive Graphic Novel “First Woman: NASA’s Promise for Humanity”
NASA released its first digital, interactive graphic novel on Saturday in celebration of National Comic Book Day. “First Woman: NASA’s Promise for Humanity” imagines the…
Exploring Alien Planets: New Cereal Box-Sized Spacecraft Has Mighty Goals
A new miniature satellite designed and built at CU Boulder’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) is providing proof that “cute” things can take on…
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Cameras Capture Mars Like Never Before – “A Huge Piece of Everything”
Scientists tap into an array of imagers aboard the six-wheeled explorer to get a big picture of the Red Planet. NASA’s Perseverance rover has been…
Could Low-Altitude Magnetic Reconnection Power Jupiter’s Polar Aurorae?
Magnetic reconnection events less than 2 Jovian radii above the planet’s cloud tops could explain why Juno has yet to observe a source for Jupiter’s…
Invisible Colors: Why Astronomers Use Different Radio Bands To Observe the Universe
Radio light comes in a rainbow of colors. We see these colors with radio bands, and each band has a story to tell about the…
Something Big Just Crashed Into Jupiter!
In 1994, the Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 (SL9) impacted Jupiter, which had captured the comet shortly before (and broken apart by its gravity). The event became…
Magnetic Structures Observed Near Supermassive Black Hole
A new view of the region closest to the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy Messier 87 (M87) has shown important details…
Peering Into the Moon’s Shadows: AI Provides Sharper Images of Lunar Craters That Contain Water Ice
Permanently shadowed lunar craters contain water ice, but are difficult to image. A machine learning algorithm now provides sharper images. The Moon’s polar regions are…
First Light From Sun-Watching Sunstorm CubeSat
Around the same size as two big Harry Potter paperbacks, ESA’s Sun-watching Sunstorm CubeSat has produced its first solar X-ray spectrum, coming just over a week after its launch…